Walter Bright wrote:
> The dmd-beta mailing list is for those who want to be notified of impending releases of dmd so they can check their libraries or projects against it for regressions.
> 
> You can subscribe by sending mail to dmd-beta-subscribe@puremagic.com
> or visiting http://lists.puremagic.com/
> 
> Thanks to Brad Roberts for setting this up.

Why are you creating these as mailing lists and not as news.digitalmars.com groups?

grauzone wrote:
> Why are you creating these as mailing lists and not as news.digitalmars.com groups?

Because I expect it to be very low traffic, and I wouldn't expect people to constantly have to check the n.g. to see if the beta is available. It also gives feedback on who actually cares about the beta.

Hello Walter,

> grauzone wrote:
> 
>> Why are you creating these as mailing lists and not as
>> news.digitalmars.com groups?
>> 
> Because I expect it to be very low traffic, and I wouldn't expect
> people to constantly have to check the n.g. to see if the beta is
> available. 

A decent NG client will do that for them and then pop up a notification window.

> It also gives feedback on who actually cares about the
> beta.
> 

OTOH that's a valid point, up to a point. What about lurkers?

Walter Bright wrote:
> grauzone wrote:
>> Why are you creating these as mailing lists and not as news.digitalmars.com groups?
> 
> Because I expect it to be very low traffic, and I wouldn't expect people to constantly have to check the n.g. to see if the beta is available. It also gives feedback on who actually cares about the beta.

There's also the fact that there's a very small barrier to subscribing to a mailing list - only people who are particularly interested in it will bother. I've seen the mailing list approach used elsewhere because of this, and it works well.

Walter Bright wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
>> grauzone wrote:
>>> Why are you creating these as mailing lists and not as news.digitalmars.com groups?
>>
>> Because I expect it to be very low traffic, and I wouldn't expect people to constantly have to check the n.g. to see if the beta is available. It also gives feedback on who actually cares about the beta.
> 
> There's also the fact that there's a very small barrier to subscribing to a mailing list - only people who are particularly interested in it will bother. I've seen the mailing list approach used elsewhere because of this, and it works well.

Why would you put up a barrier for beta-testing?

The concurrency mailing list I can understand (that's Andrei's thing).

Guillaume B. wrote:
> 
>  I prefer to read everything in my news reader. Is it possible to add the
> following malling lists from http://lists.puremagic.com/ to gmane? (
> http://gmane.org/subscribe.php )
> 
> - dmd-beta
> - dmd-concurrency
> - phobos
> - dmd-internals
> 
>  Some lists for D are already on gmane so it would be nice if they could
>  all
> be there.
> 

 Hi

Guillaume B. wrote:

>  I prefer to read everything in my news reader. Is it possible to add the
> following malling lists from http://lists.puremagic.com/ to gmane? (
> http://gmane.org/subscribe.php )
> 
> - dmd-beta
> - dmd-concurrency
> - phobos
> - dmd-internals
> 
>  Some lists for D are already on gmane so it would be nice if they could
>  all
> be there.
> 

Hi,

 I've subscribed the malling lists to gmane: just point your news reader to
news.gmane.org and search for gmane.comp.lang.d. Note that not all groups
are available since groups are created when the first message arrives from
the mailing lists. Just check for new groups one in a while.

 Guillaume